LOL, orison, it's all your fault! Btw, I should add that I don't mind stepping on them, indeed I think acorns, like gravel, are cool to walk on and toughen my feet. But I do wear a baseball cap when walking my regular stroll around the block once they start to fall heavily again, they hurt when they hit me in the head!
Hmmmm... apparently there are no barefoot readers of fantasy graphic novels and/or short stories here. Since it was written with a capital A, I'd spell Acorn "o-n-e c-u-t-e e-l-f", since it happens to be the name of one of the two lovemates of Wolfrider chieftess Goodtree. As for barefooting, I'm in the same position Myranya is, since the poor nuts are not painful to my toughened soles, but (if they were able to) they'd scream with pain when I step onto them. Wiggling nut-crushing toes, ~*Ganesha*~